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There are 134km of coast, about 3,000 ha of coastal sand-dunes, more than 12,600 ha of inland water surfaces, including three coastal lagoons – Thi Nai (5,050ha), De Gi (1,600ha), and Chau Truc (1,200ha), Tam Quan Estuary area (400ha) and hundreds of reservoirs and lakes in Binh Dinh province. This is favorable for the development of aquaculture in brackish-water, coastal and fresh-water areas. Fishery plays an important role in economic development in the province.
There are more than 500 kinds of fish in the sea of Binh Dinh province. Of these, 38 kinds of fish can generate high economic value such as ocean tuna, codfish, anchovy, shark, flying fish, grouper, red snapper, ocean squid, black-tiger shrimp, lobster and white shrimp. In addition are swallow’s nest, Holothurian, abalone, sweet snail and pearl oyster. Binh Dinh is also home to a wide variety of sea animals that are rare or do not exist in other places, such as black eel, lobster, Huynh De (royal) crab and blue mytilus smaragdinus.
There are about 38,000 tonnes of benthic fish and 22,000 tonnes of pelagic fish in the sea of Binh Dinh, of which the province is able to catch 33-35,000 tonnes annually.
Together with the comprehensive economic growth, fishery in Binh Dinh has enjoyed notable success. Seafood production increased an average of seven percent annually in 2001-2005. Marine catches exceeded 100,000 tonnes and raised seafood hit 3,300 tonnes in 2005. Offshore fishing also climbed an average of 6.2 percent and aquaculture expanded 6.6 percent annually.
There are more than 4,500 ha of water where seafood is raised. This includes 2,600ha of brackish water where people mostly raise black-tiger shrimp and 1,900 ha of fresh-water reservoirs, lakes and ponds where aquatic animals are raised. Along the coast in Binh Dinh are 250 shrimp farms that provide shrimp varieties for Binh Dinh and neighboring provinces. In several intensive farms, shrimp productivity hit an average of 4-5 tonnes per hectare per season or even a high 9-10 tonnes per hectare per season.
For years now, Binh Dinh has placed great importance on improving fish logistic service facilities. The province has invested in key projects such as (1) upgrading the Quy Nhon Fish Port, (2) building the Tam Quan and De Gi fish markets, (3) dredging the Tam Quan Berth, (4) building a quarantine and surveillance station in Hoai Nhon and Phu My, (5) building a lab to examine antibiotic residues and toxic substances in seafood and (6) building a seafood quarantine lab. Manpower in the fishery industry is fairly strong. There are 41,000 fishermen, 11,000 seafood farmers and several thousand people working for seafood processing factories in Binh Dinh province. Particularly, through vocational training and employment programs, a significant number of seafood workers are skillful. There are also a great many scientists, engineers and technicians who hold university and higher education degrees and are working in the fishery industry. They play a key role in fostering fishery development in the province. Binh Dinh takes major advantages for comprehensive aquaculture development.
The 16th Binh Dinh Province Party Congress has drawn-up a fishery development plan until 2010. Under this, the province will (1) develop aquaculture, fishing, seafood processing and fishery logistic services and improve offshore fishing at the same time, (2) develop large fishing boats, progressively modernizing fish logistic facilities, upgrade shipbuilding yards, establish fishing-tool and shrimp and fish feed production factories and (3) set up a fishery research center to preserve and develop seafood resources. It is expected that by 2010 the province will catch 110,000 tonnes of seafood and raise 4,500 tonnes of shrimp and other special seafood.
Following the Binh Dinh overall fishery development strategy until 2010 with a vision to 2020, seafood production will come to VND1,220 billion in 2010 (including VND1,060 billion from fishing and VND135 billion from aquaculture) and VND2,045 billion in 2020 (including VND1,727 billion from fishing and VND242 billion from aquaculture). Revenue from seafood services will likely be VND25 billion in 2010 and VND75 billion in 2020. Seafood exports are expected to be US$50 million in 2010 and US$120 million in 2020. To make this happen, it is needed to invest about VND8,500 billion in the fishery industry by 2020.
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